over-handed

See also: overhanded

English

Adjective

over-handed (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of overhanded
   • 2008, Dick Burdette, The Waterloo Wonders, →ISBN, page 87:

     Under-handed, over-handed, back-handed, left-handed, right-handed, standing at grotesque angles and almost standing on their heads, the Wonders fired the ball into the basket.

   • 1864, William N. Brady, The Kedge-anchor: Or, Young Sailors' Assistant, page 68:

     A piece of rope has an eye spliced in one end, and several over-handed knots made on the bight, at equal distances from each other.

   • 1850, Thomas Cooper, Cooper's Journal: Or, Unfettered Thinker and Plain Speaker for Truth., page 94:

     If we enquire into the causes of this poverty and reduction of wages, we are met on every side by complaints of 'over-population,' 'redundancy of labour,' 'want of demand,' 'the labour-market over-handed,' 'gluts,' 'panics,' &c., and, notwithstanding, that over-population and over-production are relative questions, they are practically carried out in the most abstracted sense of the term.

Adverb

over-handed (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of overhanded
   • 2013, Mel Marmer, Bill Nowlin, Clem Comly, The Year of the Blue Snow: The 1964 Philadelphia Phillies, →ISBN, page 35:

     Mine drops...like a curveball thrown over-handed by a left-hander.

   • 1874, New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs, page 109:

     I have been working in this country and in England, and we build over-handed if we get the stone as good binders ; without proper binders it would not be a proper way to construct a wall;

Verb

over-handed

1. simple past and past participle of over-hand